Electrical changes of the polar ionosphere during magnetospheric substorms

Details Electrical changes of the polar ionosphere during magnetospheric substorms Electrical changes of the polar ionosphere during magnetospheric substorms

May 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986jgr....91.5737a&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 91, May 1, 1986, p. 5737-5754.

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Atmospheric Electricity, Ionospheric Disturbances, Magnetospheric Instability, Polar Substorms, Electric Potential, Energy Transfer, Field Aligned Currents, Ionospheric Currents, Magnetic Signatures, Resistance Heating

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Changes of the distribution of the potential electric fields, ionospheric currents, field-aligned currents, the Joule heat production rate, the particle energy injection rate, and the total energy dissipation rate are examined in detail by comparing them at a presubstorm epoch and the maximum epoch for several substorms over the period 17-19 March 1978. The data sets are obtained on the basis of the magnetic records from the six International Magnetic Study meridian chains of observatories by using the computer code developed by Kamide et al. (1981) and the conductivity model developed by Ahn et al. (1983). A number of global features that are found to be common to most of the substorms examined include findings that: (1) The positive potential cell in the morning sector extends into the evening sector during substorms; (2) When it is intensified, the westward electrojet on the nightside tends to flow equatorward of the positive potential ridge; (3) The so-called 'Harang discontinuity' may be identified as the ridge of the negative potential cell; (4) The distribution of field-aligned currents determined by the new method is more complicated than the statistical pattern obtained by polar orbiting satellites; (5) The basic ionospheric current pattern is fundamentally the same during a fairly quiet period, a slightly disturbed period and a substorm period; and (6) The highest Joule heat production occurs along the westward extension of the westward electrojet, while the particle energy injection rate is high along the westward electrojet in the morning sector.

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